Word: ericssons
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...Italians have not asked, "Was the Vikings' sketch drawn in 1440?" or "Was Ericsson, in fact, the first discoverer of America?" To answer the question of "who got here first" on the basis of ethnocentrism is as backward as pre-Columbus thinking that "the world cannot be round...
...Government apparently believes that Leif Ericsson was a son of Iceland and a discoverer of America. The U.S. engraved a statement to this effect on a statue of Leif and gave the statue to the Icelandic nation on its 1,000th anniversary in 1930. I am sorry if my fellow countryman has turned Norwegian...
...Ericsson, of Norwegian descent, was born in Iceland...
...German. In Spain, which likes to think of Cristobal Colon as a son of Castile, Franco's press denounced Ericsson, Yale and the Italians all at once. Damning the university's acquisition as "necrophagous"-feeding on the dead-A.B.C., Madrid's largest daily accused Yale of "trying to prove the superiority of Northern Europe." Italy's claim to Columbus, scoffed the paper, is equivalent to "crediting Germany with victory in World War II because Eisenhower is of German descent." In fact claimed A.B.C. Editor Torcuato Luca de Tena, it was Spanish Navigator Alfonso Sanchez...
...Irish maintain that their own Saint Brendan the Navigator got here 300 years before Columbus. And though Jewish organizations did not enter the scramble last week, Pennsylvania State Representative Herbert Fineman solemnly averred that Ericsson's trusty navigator was named Eric Mandelbaum. Peking was strangely silent considering the Red brag that a band of Chinese monks traveled from the Aleutians to Mexico back...